Chapter Seventy-One: Huzhou Grand Theater
The major grain stores are open to supply, the small bank loan business under the name of Yongwang is in full swing, coupled with the Huzhou government's project to control Taihu Lake, the measure of cash-for-work has benefited countless refugees, and the Huzhou government, which was originally a little depressed because of the disaster, is miraculously recovering its vitality.
On the first day of October in the sixth year of Zhengde, a piece of news caused a sensation in Huzhou, and even attracted many wealthy gentry and even ordinary people from surrounding prefectures to Huzhou.
Huzhou Grand Theater is officially opened!
For this giant building with a magnificent ring, ninety percent of the people don't know what it is used for, and most of them guess that it is a military camp built by King Yong, and even many people think that King Yong intends to temper a large army here in case of disobedience.
However, the Grand Theater was listed, and this secret rumor naturally disappeared.
No one knows what the Grand Theater does, in this era of extreme lack of entertainment, literati like to go to the art hall to talk about the wind and moon, at most it is just to hold a literary meeting, as for the people in the market to go to the tavern, teahouse to drink tea and drink, listening to books is considered a rare entertainment.
Of course, the people at the bottom can't afford to consume alcohol, and their only pastime after a day's work is to warm the kang head with their wives and children, and working hard to create talents is the only way for them to relax.
The singing stage and the stage are no strangers to the people of today's Ming Dynasty, almost all of the singing stages are in the major art halls, and the girls with ordinary talents sing small songs on the singing stage, and those who are more famous will not show up like this, but will entertain those talents or high-rollers who come in their own rooms.
As for the stage, after more than 100 years of development, the opera still has not matured, and the troupe that was once flourishing in later generations is still nowhere to be seen, but when it comes to the Huzhou stage, no matter who it is, the immediate thought must be the Wangfu Restaurant.
Those girls who were recruited by Yongwangfu are now almost well-known in Huzhou Mansion, and their reputation is much louder than that of the leading Oiran of the art museum, according to the words of later generations, they are wrists and stars!
The poignant "Liang Zhu" and the grotesque "The Legend of the White Snake", these two stage plays set off an indescribable terrifying storm in Huzhou, which made the business of the Wangfu Restaurant completely hot, and the series of drinks of the Wangfu Restaurant made the men who love wine completely ignite the fire in their chests, and they were deeply immersed in it and couldn't extricate themselves.
If you want to eat and watch a play in the palace, you must make a reservation, and you must pay a deposit to make a reservation, and the deposit paid starts at three taels, that is to say, in today's Wangfu restaurant, even if you eat and drink in the lobby, there is a minimum consumption, and the minimum consumption amount is three taels, and three taels of silver will not be refunded to you even if you don't have anything.
Even so, you may have already scheduled a month or even three months from now......
In the palace restaurant, what power, what net worth is, the restaurant is the property of the Yongwang, you are more powerful than the Yongwang, your power can be greater than the Yongwang, the power in the world is greater than the Yongwang In addition to the emperor and the queen mother of the capital, you find the third to try?
As for wealth, you are rich enough to rival the country, you know what it means to be wealthy, you dare to use silver to scare the palace restaurant, aren't you afraid that King Yong will make you bankrupt in minutes?
It can be said that in Huzhou, if you want to say where the best public security is, it is not necessarily the various yamen, and the best public security must be the Yongwang Mansion and the various industries under the name of Yongwang.
Whether it is a vicious thief or a gangster, if you dare to go to a restaurant to make trouble, it is a typical death-seeking.
Huzhou Grand Theater has done enough publicity work throughout September, and now Huzhou people do not know what the so-called Grand Theater does, to put it simply, this Grand Theater is a super expanded version of the stage, and it is a place where the lowest people can afford to watch the play.
How can this not be a sensation!
There are thousands of onlookers in front of the gate of the theater, if there were officials with sticks to disperse them in the past, but now the officials don't even have a ghost shadow, this is the grand theater of the Yongwang, and the people who came can be said to have come to Yongwang to cheer for him, and drive them away? The soldiers who maintain law and order can beat you up, and you don't even know your own mother.
All the officials in Huzhou Mansion received a post from Yongwangfu, inviting them to come and watch the first performance of the Grand Theater.
So at the entrance of the Grand Theater, it was divided into two camps, one camp was the ordinary people gathered, and on the other side were all kinds of sedan chairs and carriages.
Xu Zhenqing and Li Mengyang sat opposite each other in a carriage, and the two had been subordinate officials of the palace for six years, but they could not see the slightest hope of returning to the capital, so their thoughts faded.
However, the two of them were responsible for supervising the eternal king, and they did not dare to neglect their duties, and there was never a shortage of monthly reports, but they never received a reply.
It's just that the two of them probably wouldn't have dreamed that although there was no news after they played the Yongwang's every move, they successfully aroused the endless interest of the Son of Heaven.
This interest even made the Son of Heaven have the idea of Zen several times, the literati's pen is sometimes so magical, in the two of the pen described Huzhou is nothing, but the colorful days of King Yong and the soft means of earning silver to earn money made the emperor who stayed in the capital, and was about to go crazy had an endless yearning.
"Why is King Yong so able to toss?" Xu Zhenqing sighed fiercely.
"Young people, their blood is strong, and it's normal for them to like tossing when they can't be idle." Li Mengyang smiled and said: "But then again, King Yong's love for wealth has never been tricky and robbed, although the businessman is cheap and profit-seeking, but there is nothing to blame."
"That's just as well." Xu Zhenqing thought for a while and said: "However, the hidden worries in the hearts of this official are always difficult to dissipate, in the Ming Dynasty, even if the vassal kings in various places are not full of evil, they are not good people, they know that they can only be trapped in one place for the rest of their lives, so it is common to be powerful, enjoy themselves to the fullest, and treat the people coldly, but King Yong is different......
King Yong has the people in his heart, which is a good thing if he is a magistrate or a child of an ordinary wealthy family, but he is not necessarily a vassal king, and the official thinks that King Yong's ambition is not small. ”
"Lord Xu is worried too much." Li Mengyang shook his head and said: "King Yong cares about the people and has an excellent reputation among the people, but it is only in Huzhou, Lord Xu said that King Yong's ambition is not small, it is nothing more than to say that King Yong has the ambition of not being a minister, but just because he is a vassal king, do you dare to rebel?" You must know that it is King Yong's own brother who is sitting in the Dragon Court at this time, what name does he use to rebel, and how much strength does he have to support his ambition to rebel? ”
Xu Zhenqing didn't say anything, he also knew that his thoughts were somewhat absurd, but the worries in his heart were difficult to dissipate.